Little Known Music Facts

[SlowPokemon]

Little known music facts, part 1
-Beethoven once ate an entire piano
-All violinists hate atonal music
-The Romantic Period is the lamest
-You don't know Claude Debussy but you do trust him
-Twelve-tone serial music was invented because Schoenberg was unhappy with the cereal selection at his local grocery store
-Schoenberg once filed a lawsuit against Burger King when they tried to capitalize on his music with a "Schoen Burger" menu addition

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Special Part 5 Edition
Part 6 — Coming Tuesday, March 6, 2018!

I do one of these every week on Facebook and someone said I should post them on Reddit and I'm like why not let NSM in on it. Woooo.

[Dudeman]

i cant breathe

[SlowPokemon]

I do one every Tuesday so I'll post the previous ones throughout this week and then just start doing them on Tuesdays here too.

[Sebastian]

-The Romantic Period is the lamest

Fight me.

[SlowPokemon]

listen I try to take equal shots at everything in these but sometimes my inherent biases do shine through

[mikey]

mozart is better than bach

[Maelstrom]

-The Baroque Period is the lamest

ftfy

[Olimar12345]

Fight me.

[mikey]

nah I'm with mael on this baroque kinda sucks

[Olimar12345]

dont make me get firearrow

[BlackDragonSlayer]

baroque is cool

[SlowPokemon]

dont make me get firearrow

Holy shit those long posts about Bach gave me life I forgot about that

[Sebastian]

I do admit Bach was a genius, but romantic touches my heart way more than baroque.

[SlowPokemon]

Sebastian—have you heard the andante movement of Mahler symphony 6? That's probably my current favorite romantic piece lol. I kinda keep coming back to it

[Dude]

120 bpm is one beat every half of a second